How to Use sector in a Sentence

sector

noun
  • He was assigned to the northern sector.
  • Data is stored on the disk in 512-byte sectors.
  • The path to profit in the media sector has long been well defined.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 12 July 2023
  • That is far higher than the money made in most other health sectors.
    Jordan Rau, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Few civilians get to see the science and tech that researchers in the defense sector are working on.
    Sarah Scoles, Popular Science, 8 June 2023
  • The $270 million fund-raising round is notable, given the downturn in the biotech sector.
    Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023
  • That’s a big shift – the sector is still down 3.4% this year, according to FactSet data.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 19 July 2023
  • In addition to that, there is still a persistent gender gap in the sector.
    Melissa Noel, Essence, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The construction industry and other sectors would feel the pain, too.
    Jeff Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
  • The latest Market Talks covering the Health Care sector.
    WSJ, 18 Dec. 2023
  • This is the first tech deal to be blocked since the European Union introduced new competition rules for the sector.
    WIRED, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Part of its focus is on the transportation sector, 58% of the emissions from which come from passenger cars and trucks, according to the EPA.
    Alexa St. John, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • No sector seems to have an answer to this economic riddle.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The financial sector is one of the less surprising sources of this high-income bullying.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Even after the lockdowns ended, the lodging sector has battled to recover from the shutdowns.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • More pain is coming for China’s real estate sector, as new home prices sank by 0.3% from the previous month, the steepest drop in almost a year.
    Alan Murray, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
  • What is rarely apparent is what the health cost is, because that cost is born in a different sector and often at a different time.
    Rob Reddick, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Mass layoffs are taking place in sectors that include tech and journalism.
    Tajja Isen, The Atlantic, 15 June 2023
  • For instance, the minimum age for jobs in the agriculture sector the minimum age is much lower.
    Keenan Thomas, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2024
  • But the study is helpful in outlining how issues such as burnout and low wages are leading to an unsustainable level of turnover in this sector.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • But like other parts of the state, San Diego has grown more diverse after decades of immigration and the establishment of a booming biotech sector.
    Jill Cowan, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
  • The latest Market Talks covering the Auto and Transport sector.
    WSJ, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Schmidt is among an array of prominent foreign investors attracted to the nascent promise of Ukraine’s tech sector.
    TIME, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The world’s livestock sector is a key driver of climate change, contributing around 12% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
    Paul Winters, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The German yard wanted a vessel focused on wellness, as the trend has well and truly infiltrated the marine sector.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The difference is in the particular sector of the trucking industry.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Ukrainian forces would likely make a special effort to destroy T-14s if their presence were detected in a sector.
    Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023
  • Vietnam has made visa applications easier this year to help revive the tourism sector.
    Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Layoffs in the tech sector have surged by a factor of 16 from last year, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray, and Christmas, while finance job cuts have more than doubled.
    Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2023
  • For her part, Stone anticipates that the new tech trend will extend to the metallic sector via magnet manipulation, making for a new age of nails.
    Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2024

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